GRIPES

[Litespeed]

1 minute ago, willedoo said:

A bit like SNAFU.

Yep,

 

Sadly, I was never able to approve a pneumatic drug dart gun but sure dreamed about it. Star trek style would have been great, maybe even a Fazer set to stun. 

 

Now my biggest threat is swimming with sharks, pure bliss and safe....relatively.

[octave]

 

I have no gripes because I am a white middle-class male. Unless you have extreme financial pressures or extreme health conditions (my health is not great)  then for f*** ske just enjoy your life and stop whinging, (my wife is interstate so there are no constraints on my drinking)  To me people who whinge are losers except in some extreme cases. You are alive you have a family, STOP F***ING WHINGING. 

[Litespeed]

My health's shot, I am poor...

 

But I live on a boat and do what I want.

 

Cheers 

[octave]

1 minute ago, Litespeed said:

My health's shot, I am poor...

 

But I live on a boat and do what I want.

 

Cheers 

 

 you ate wealthy

[Litespeed]

Exactly

 

I am surrounded by a world renowned RAMSA bird sanctuary and national Park in one of the world's best harbours.

 

I might not be flying but nature shows me everyday. Too see a Sea Eagle fish then roost on the island is priceless.

 

And some of the world's best seafood is only a bit of effort away. 

Edited January 17 by Litespeed

[Bruce Tuncks]

good onyer guys. I am getting old ( 78) but my health is ok and I have a j230 at the local airfield. So no personal gripes, but I still worry about trump and putin and global warming and a list of other things which will effect my offspring. Yep I am a worrier.

[facthunter]

Port Stephens is a Marine Garden of Eden except for some of the flotsam and jetsam.  Nev

[nomadpete]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

Port Stephens is a Marine Garden of Eden except for some of the flotsam and jetsam.  Nev

I hope you are not implying that ANY of our yachties are flotam or jetsam!

 

[Litespeed]

11 hours ago, nomadpete said:

I hope you are not implying that ANY of our yachties are flotam or jetsam!

 

I represent that comment

[facthunter]

The stuff that just floats at anchor and collects Seagull and Cormorant Poo can be.. I did say "SOME"..  I'd like my own "Little" submarine with strong glass panels..  When I was young I used to almost Live in Boats.  Nev

Edited January 18 by facthunter

[onetrack]

Boats = A hole in the water into which you regularly throw $100 notes, just for the sheer pleasure of getting wet and cold a large part of the time.

 

Or as a former business partner, who was a boat builder and one-time large yacht owner, neatly outlined - "Owning a yacht is like standing in a cold shower, tearing up $100 notes".

[spacesailor]

I once ' chartered '  my yacht out for NY-Eve .

 

They insisted on twice as much as I thought reasonable. 

All the food & drink  for free .

But , as I was incharge , none was consumed .

More dollars from yacht owning,  than I could ever Imagined. 

I wonder IF the same holds true , for ' air raft chartering ' .

spacesailor

Edited January 19 by spacesailor
A I changed two words

[Litespeed]

Boats are great ways to live but better at spending money.

 

They cost much more when no used or left long periods, just like aircraft.

 

Those who spend the most tend to know the least and have more money than sense.

 

They can actually be money spinners eg yacht doing day trips for tourists. Some are booked 3trips a day 7 days a week.

 

I know one that's done 100  days straight bookings.

[old man emu]

4 hours ago, Litespeed said:

I know one that's done 100  days straight bookings.

I knew a Vice Squad detective who once did 100 Gay bookings in a day.

[facthunter]

The trouble with picking up the odd bad criminal is you never get even. Nev

[nomadpete]

My gripe of the day....

 

I've been sitting here for an hour watching this thread, waiting for the report of Octave's disasterous cycling accident. And nobody has posted anything about it.

[octave]

I survived

[facthunter]

Nomad do you only go to car races for the crashes?   Nev

[nomadpete]

45 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Nomad do you only go to car races for the crashes?   Nev

Doesn't everybody?

[spacesailor]

Not when you have relo's on the track ! .

spacesailor

[facthunter]

Not everybody. Demolition Derbys are a waste of time unless you're a cretin. You go to watch good driving and riding.  Nev

[old man emu]

There's a young lad from Central West NSW who is making a name for himself in the USA dirt track racing world, what we call 'speedway'.

 

But look at what they are riding: 

 

 

Where are these bikes?  and these 'swingers' 

 

The Good Old Days: Saturday night at the Sydney Royale, Moore Park and Sunday afternoon at Westmead.

[facthunter]

Cinder track and sliding developed in the 20s in Newcastle and Maitland and spread from that.  Early bikes used Rudge, Douglas, AJS  American Crocker, the Harley 350 Pea shooter and later the  soon to  become  ubiquitous JAP engine  from Tottenham London and designed by Val Page and installed in  various frames till the Mid 60's when ESSO Jawa displaced them. Speedway bikes have NO brakes or gearboxes.. Versions of grass track and oval track have One and two  and a four speed gearbox of which you only use the top 2. None of them have a kick starter and they all pretty well ran on Methanol with a total loss oil system and CASTOR oil that exited the engine case by a Leather flap valve on the bottom of the engine.  Nev

[old man emu]

Nothin' like the smell of a burnt methanol and castor oil mixture on a balmy Sydney summer's evening. 

[facthunter]

Once you've  run an alcohol speedway bike It will exude a beautiful perfume in your workshop for a good 6 months. Best to run about 4 tankful's to get it properly hot so as to have no water in it.  Nev